Dallas (1978)

The Ewings grieve over the loss of Bobby, with Pam blaming herself for Bobby's death. After Bobby's funeral, J.R. is forced to execute Bobby's will and is upset by its disclosures. He is unmoved by Sue Ellen's genuine desire to console him and his rejection propels her into a world far removed from the luxury of Southfork.

Sue Ellen goes on drinking spree and Bobby's will is read, leaving some with the hope to take advantage of it. Mandy puts pressure on J.R. to leave his wife.

The search for Sue Ellen ends up in the police station drunk tank. Sue Ellen is moved to a detoxification ward where J.R. and Dusty have a confrontation which sends Sue Ellen into a frenzy. Miss Ellie and Clayton get J.R. to commit her to a sanitarium. Meanwhile, J.R. tries to keep Pam out of Ewing Oil while Cliff sees his own hopes of controlling Christopher's inheritance as a means of getting ahead of his nemesis.

Miss Ellie accepts the idea of selling Ewing Oil as a means of keeping her troubled family together, but the prospect further divides the Ewing heirs. J.R. wants to buy Christopher's share of the company and Jack wonders if J.R. will want his ten percent. Meanwhile, Sue Ellen gets a visit from Dusty in the sanitarium and begs him to take her with him.

J.R.'s scheme to pressure Pam into selling her son's Ewing Oil stock to him backfires. J.R. also is annoyed that his investigation of Jack's past proves worthless. Wendell gives Cliff a deadline to get commitments from Pam and Jack to sell their stock to him and Miss Ellie is undecided whether to sell to Wendell or back J.R.

J.R. faces losing control of Ewing Oil when his mother and Pam decide to sell to Wendell. Miss Ellie is not happy when Sue Ellen's trouble making mother arrives at Southfork determined to straighten out her daughter's life. Pam and Miss Ellie wish to sell out to Wendell, with Jack and Ray willing to follow their lead, which causes J.R. to contemplate taking John Ross and leaving Dallas.

Bobby Ewing posthumously receives the Oil Man of the Year Award at the Oil Baron's Ball, which Miss Ellie passes on to Christopher. While accepting for her son, Pam makes an announcement that astonishes J.R. and significantly affects the future of Ewing Oil. Before the ball, J.R.'s distress makes his mother change her mind about selling to Wendell but J.R. considers Wendell's pending acquisition of Christopher's interest unacceptable and vows to start over.

At Ewing Oil, Pam incurs J.R.'s wrath when she reminds him that they are partners and settles into Bobby's old office. J.R. is delighted that Pam didn't sell to Wendell, but Cliff attacks her for reversing her decision and Mark thinks that she essentially chose Bobby over him in deciding to retain Christopher's shares. Donna and Ray make a decision about their baby and Angelica Nero interests an unsuspecting Cliff in an oil drilling venture as a ploy to attract J.R.

The Ewing hosted charity rodeo provides a fitting arena for the family's social and economic maneuvering. Jenna and Donna cheer Jack and Ray on in the bareback bronc riding event while Jenna, Sue Ellen, and Jamie compete in the barrel race and Pam and Christopher root for Mark in the steer roping event. Angelica decides on Ewing Oil for her venture and Pam makes it clear that she is as involved as J.R. in Ewing Oil decisions.

Sue Ellen seeks a legal separation from J.R. and full custody of John Ross, but J.R. vows that she will never be safe if she takes his son away from him. Miss Ellie dashes Patricia's hopes of saving the Sue Ellen - J.R. marriage and both agree that John Ross is the one good thing that came from it. J.R. wants to personally discuss the Ewing deal with Marinos and gets suspicious after Angelica is evasive and comments that Jack's involvement in the deal might be important.

J.R.'s investigation of Marinos pressures Angelica to try and quickly close the deal but his detective suggests J.R. hold off because of some odd activity at Marinos before disappearing. The detective calls from Athens for J.R. to meet him at the airport but his luggage shows up but the detective doesn't. Angelica discloses why Jack is critical to the deal and Pam is opposed to the co-venture but Angelica and Grace agree that she can be taken care of is she becomes a problem.

J.R.'s efforts to coerce the judge in the custody fight with Sue Ellen over their son prove fruitless after Sue Ellen takes John Ross' future into her own hands. The son of the judge who will preside at the appeal hearing for John Ross' custody is grateful when J.R. offers to find a job for him at Ewing Oil and J.R. hopes the father will also be grateful.

The future of several lives hang in the balance as Sue Ellen ponders a move back to Southfork, which could also affect her custody of John Ross. J.R. admits to Sue Ellen that she could forfeit custody of John Ross if she moves back to Southfork but urges her to do so for the future of their son. Jack is stunned when Jenna wants to stop seeing him and Angelica is relieved that J.R. has not received the information he was seeking from Greece.

The disappearance of Jack Ewing puts J.R. in an embarrassing position and the threat of the impending deal with Marinos could crumble. J.R. promises an angry Angelica he will find out why Jack did not show up for their luncheon meeting. Mandy decides to align herself with Cliff Barnes when he convinces her that J.R.'s meetings with Angelica are not all business. Jenna confides to Miss Ellie how miserably she treated Jack and how much she misses Bobby.

Matt Cantrell comes to town looking for Bobby unaware that his boyhood chum and business partner has been killed. Pam meets Cantrell when he barges into her office looking for Bobby and is stunned at the news of Bobby's death. Pam learns how much Matt and the mine meant to Bobby and considers continuing Ewing Oil's investment in his promising emerald mining operation. J.R. suspects that Mandy is leaking information to Cliff about the need for his equipment for the Marinos deal and an unfortunate turn of events suddenly makes locating Jack a matter of life and death.

The efforts to locate Jack Ewing intensify as Jamie lies unconscious and with J.R. having his own reasons for joining in the search. The urgency of finding a compatible blood donor for Jamie sends all the Ewings on the search for her brother. When J.R. refuses to continue Ewing Oil's investment in Matt's mine, Pam decides to back it with her own money. Meanwhile, Angelica and Grace anxiously await the results of Jack's blood analysis and assure Nicholas that he will be at the Venezuelan conference of oil ministers in which Marinos Shipping will participate.

J.R. learns that blood matching indicates that Jack and Jamie had the same parents which gives him an entirely new perspective in his dealings with Angelica and the Marinos deal. Ellie finds out what is troubling Clayton and takes it on herself to save him and Pam decides to visit Matt's emerald mine. Angelica gets J.R. to have Jack attend an oil conference in Martinique and Sue Ellen uses her powers of persuasion on Dr. Kenderson.

J.R.'s scheming to involve Pam in Matt's mining operation sends Pam to South America and also entices Cliff to invest in the venture. Sue Ellen's ingenuity earns J.R.'s begrudging respect while she enjoys the company of Dr. Kenderson. Nicholas, Angelica, and Grace scheme to get Jack to Martinique without J.R.'s influence. With drilling on the Marinos project underway, Cliff is puzzled as to where J.R. got the equipment.

Pam disappears and Matt is left for dead at the campsite in Colombia. Clayton realizes that it is time to sell Farlow Industries when he finds that Ellie has been secretly backing his losses. Nicholas has news that stuns Angelica and Grace and threatens to ruin their Martinique scheme, while J.R. gets the better of Cliff at the Graison Research charity auction at which Jenna avoids Jack who is Grace's escort.

J.R. travels to Colombia to make sure his connection with Matt is kept hidden and to pay Rueda to search for Pam while Cliff and Mark arrive and blame Matt for Pam's disappearance. Grace seduces Jack and Angelica tells Nicholas they'll proceed with the Martinique scheme as planned. In Colombia, a messenger delivers Pam's brooch to Matt with a cryptic note which leaves Cliff scared and very shaken.

In Colombia Cliff and Mark, who blame themselves for Pam's misfortune, reluctantly agree to let Matt deliver the ransom note alone as instructed by the kidnappers and in Dallas Jenna's fixation causes growing concerns. Having made the money drop, Matt returns with a note saying Pam will be released the next day at the same spot. Meanwhile, at Southfork, an arrangement is made for a psychiatrist to see Jenna.

J.R. becomes increasingly jealous of Jerry Kenderson's attentions to Sue Ellen, Jenna continues to be undecided about psychiatric visits, and in Colombia, a thoroughly disenchanted Cliff ponders Pam's offer to buy back his interest in the emerald mine.

The family welcomes Pam and Mark home from Colombia and J.R. is secretly delighted that Pam will continue to subsidize Matt's excavation of the mine. In Colombia, Matt vows to prove to a skeptical Rueda that he is not only interested in Pam's money and after Ray helps Donna with the handicapped kids, she wonders why he is overly interested in one of the deaf boys. In Martinique, Jack ignores Grace's admission that she loves him and Angelica and Nicholas plot the final phase of their scheme which threatens the lives of an unsuspecting J.R. and Jack.

In Martinique, Jack masquerades as Dimitri, while J.R. suspects that Angelica has been illegally taking Dimitri's affairs into her own hands. Back in Dallas, Kenderson takes Sue Ellen to dinner and indicates that he will not be satisfied with a platonic relationship and Jenna continues to worry the family after she cancels her therapy sessions.

In the aftermath of the Martinique masquerade ball catastrophe, Angelica disappears, Grace ends her romance with Jack, and Jack refuses to work any longer with J.R. Garrett informs J.R. that the Ewing-Marinos drilling operation must be suspended temporarily and J.R., confident that the suspension will be brief, agrees to buy back the shares from an angry Marilee, Jordan, and Andy.

J.R. is struck by the realization that he may have lost Sue Ellen for good and is informed that he will have to do something underhanded if he is to discredity her friend Jerry Kenderson. As Pam prepares to turn over Christopher's shares of Ewing Oil to J.R., he is alarmed at her reservations about selling the thing for which Bobby fought so hard. Angelica buys falsified documents and contemplates revenge against J.R. and Jack. Mandy is crushed when J.R. breaks up with her in order to pursue Sue Ellen.

Matt finds emeralds, the adoption of Tony hits a snag, J.R. goads Kenderson into giving Sue Ellen an ultimatum, the Marinos deal can now go ahead, and a vengeful Angelica arrives. Clayton and Ray encourage Jack to stay in Dallas and discuss a joint venture with him. Cliff is determined to form a new partnership with the cartel, Mark, and Pam.

In anticipation of future Ewing-Marcos drilling, J.R. shuts down less productive wells, making the cartel suspicious of his buy-back arrangement with them. Matt plans to surprise Pam in Dallas with his emeralds but Pam and Mark fear for Matt's life when an earthquake destroys Los Gatos. An incognito Angelica is taken into custody for carrying a handgun but is released when her permit is found in order.

J.R. promises Sue Ellen he'll never take her for granted again and is surprised and confused at her impulsive actions. Jack disagrees with Clayton and Ray when they decide to hire an older cowboy, Ben Stivers, to supervise the horse-breeding and racing chores. Tony agrees to having Donna and Ray adopt him but the adoption is denied because of Ray's record.

J.R. finds renewed happiness with Sue Ellen in spite of his oil empire tottering, Mandy pursuing him, and a dangerous enemy lurking in wait. Financially strapped, J.R. has to pass on a lucrative opportunity to buy out a competitor. The cartel moves in and offers to include Cliff who declines because of the promise he made to Jamie.

The happiness on Pam and Mark's wedding day soon fades as J.R.'s attempt to outwit Angelica may have come too late to save Jack's life and jeopardizes Sue Ellen's life as well. Meanwhile, the presence of the enigmatic Ben Stivers continues to puzzle the Ewings.